Ash-pan for locomotives.



L. S. MOORE.

ASH PAN r011 LOCOMOTIVES.

0N FILED NOV 17,1909. 1,012,215. Patented Dec. 19, 1911 Fig.

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UNITED STA'lilf;

s PATENT OFFICE;

LOUIS S: MOORE, 0F MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR 0F FOUB-FIFTHS TO I. I.

MOKINNEY, L. C. CAMPBELL, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.

J. E. STEVENS, AND WASHINGTON ELDR-IDGE, ALL OF ASH-PAN FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

Application filed November 17, 1909.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS S. Moons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montgomery. in the county of lvlontgomcry and State of Alabama, have invented a dew and useful Ash-Pan for Locomotives, 01" which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ash pans for locomotives and its object is to provide a simple and compact structure of this character having improved means whereby the contents thereof can be readily dumped without requiring the fireman to go under or back of the locomotive in order to operate the device Another object is to provide improved means for supporting the slidahle closures of the hopper sections of the pan, the supporting means being located where they will not be affected by the heat radiating from the hot ashcs in the pan and from the fuel upon the grate.

Another object is to provide improved means whereby the movable closures of the hopper sections of the pan can be readily manipulated.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and the combinations of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invent ion has been shown.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical longitudinal section through an ash pan embodying the present improvements. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof. vFig. 3 is a section on line A-B Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates the upper portion of the ash pan, the same being secured in any suitable manner to the wall of the furnace and below the grate C. the walls of this body portion merging into the walls of hopper like receivers l spaced apart, having their inter mediate transverse walls tl connected at their upper ends by an intermediate horizontal wall 4; above which is located an inverted V- shaped dividing or separating! plate 5 whereby ashes, deposited at the center of the pan, are directed either into one or the other of The lower portions of the walls of each receiver converge downwardly being inclined inwardly and as indicated at (l and are wardly extending flanges 7 constituting abutments for the sliding bottoms of the pan.

Draft 0 vening's Sare formed in the side and i end wa ls of the receivers and the s ace between the intermediate walls 3 is sue to readily receive one of the axles of the 10- comotire. Parallel channel irons 10 are supported below and beyond the sides of the receivers of the ash pan by hangers 11 which depend from the frame of These channel irons constitute supports and guides for the slidable closures 12 of the receivers, each closure being formed of heav metal reinforced along itsredges by ange irons 13. from the ends of each of the closures and these brackets are secured to an actuating bar if) cxtendin longitudinally under the centers of the c osures and also under the axle of the locomotive. The bar 15 is also slidably mounted within su porting loops or brackets 16 carried by a anger 17 and the end of said bar is pivotally attached to a lever 18 which is iulcriuned upon the hanger 17 as shown at 19, one end of the lever being provided with an outward y extending arm 20. The end of this-arm is designed to be received by a socket 21 formed in one end of an elongated handle 22 which can be readily removed from engagement with the arm 20 and which is of sufiicient length to project beyond the side of the locomotive where it can be reached and manipulated by the fireman. .It is to be understood that tge when mount-d 0 1e sup orting irons 10. are held in 'igqntact with tie flanges 7 and thus prevent eakage of ashes from the receivers of the pan.

Ashes dropping course be directed into one or the other of the receivers and will be supported therein by the closures l2 ofthe pan. When it is desired to dumpthecontcnts of the pan the handle 22 is placed incngagement with the 0 provided with in- 55 the locomotive. 65

Brackets 14 extend downwardly 7 0 slidable closures 12 from the furnace will of upon the supporting irons 10 sacrificing any of abody having spaced ash receivers dependfing therefrom, each receiver being open at tune in the presence the bottom, hangers outside of and spaced,

by the hangers and located below i lug with the bottoms of the receivers, bracktends laterallybeyo nd thelocomotive and ets depending from the closures, an actuatit can be manipulated without the necessity of the fireman getting under the locomotive. 5 ing bar secured to the brackets and extend- The handle can be readily placed on the arm 3 ing under the closures, said bar being spaced and, when it is not in use, it can be removed 1 from the closures, and means adjacent one therefrom and hung within the cab. end of the pan for actuating the bar to Importance is attached to the fact that the simultaneously open or close the closures, irons which support the sliding closures 12 said closures being movable together in the are'located at points removed from the ash same direction. pan and where they cannot become warped i 2. An ash pan or otherwise injured as a result of the ini a body having spaced ash tense heat radiating from the pan and from ing therefrom, the furnace. Moreover, inasmuch as the l the bottom, slidable closures normally. conbar 15 is spaced from the bottoms of the l tasting with the bottoms of the receivers,

for locomotives, including rece vers dependpan, it will also be maintain -d cool under all means spaced from the body for supporting conditions, this being true in view of the 1 sajd closures, an actuating bar extendm unfact that air is free to circulate above and der and connected to the closures, sai bar around it. being spaced from the closures, a lever iv- Various changes can of coursesbe made in 1 otally connected between its ends to the ar,

the construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit or t the advantages of thel invention. 1 What is claimed s:-- 1 1. An ash pan for locomotives including i and means removably engaging the lever for shifting said lever and bar to simultaneously open or close the closures, said closures being movable together in the same direc' tion.

, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my -signaof two witnesses. from the receivers, supporting rails carried LOUIS O al'ld at the sides of the receivers, closures slidably mounted on said rails and normally contact- 'itnesses DANIEL Pan'rmnoe, J r., C. S. PARTRIDGE.

each receiver being open at 

